DHQ Style Notes (Draft)

This document contains notes towards a style guide for authors, to help them prepare word-processing documents that can be converted to DHQ markup with a minimum of work. As these notes are solidified they can be added to our Style Guide elsewhere on this wiki.

Formatting conventions

Quotations

• use quotation marks (not italics) for inline quotations
• follow each quotation by an inline citation (Authorname date, page) (Smith 1999, 24)
• page number should be included for all quoted material
• for quotations from born-digital materials that have no pagination, use section and paragraph numbering instead

Images and figures

• for each figure, give the figure number followed by the filename of the image file for this figure: Figure 1 (image01.jpg)
• do not embed images in the word-processing file; instead, separate image files should acccompany the submission. The file names for the image files should be consistently numbered to match the numbering of the figures: image01.jpg, image02.jpg, etc. Do not use descriptive names for the images (e.g. yellow_car.jpg).
• if you do not own the image and fair use does not apply, you are responsible for getting permission to use the image.

Links and references to online materials

• include a URL in square brackets for any reference to a web site or other online object that should be made a clickable link
• if the URL itself is important or will be useful to readers, include the URL in the running prose (not in brackets)

Minutiae

• use spaced em-dashes

Notes

-- JuliaFlanders - 14 Jun 2008